[ros-users] cturtle's Gazebo Crashing with Ogre error

[Patrick Beeson]

Yes indeed.  If I run as root, it succeeds.


On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 4:45 PM, William Woodall <wjwwood at gmail.com> wrote:
> My coworker and I have discovered that it is a permissions problem, running
> roslaunch gazebo_worlds empty_world.launch as root allows gazebo to run
> normally.
> We are still looking into why that is, but I can only guess that it is
> because the location of the binaries are not writable by normal users.
> I would like to see if you can reproduce this result.
> Thanks,
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> William Woodall
> Graduate Software Engineering
> Auburn University
> w at auburn.edu
> wjwwood at gmail.com
> 256-345-9938
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>
>
> On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 4:35 PM, Patrick Beeson <beeson.p at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> I'm seeing this as well, and I am running Lucid with an NVIDIA card
>> and the most current NVIDIA driver.  glxinfo and glxgears works fine,
>> so I'm unsure why OGRE is having problems.  I may try compiling the
>> source instead of installing pre-compiled binaries using apt.
>>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 7:48 PM, William Woodall <wjwwood at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > I figured this might be the problem, however, parallels has some form of
>> > 3D
>> > acceleration, and I know this because I have rviz and compiz (visual
>> > effects) working in it.  Also, the boxturtle build of gazebo works just
>> > fine
>> > in my virtual machine, which leads me to believe it might be a bug or
>> > change
>> > in requirements from the previous version that is causing the error.  I
>> > will
>> > attempt to find a computer with a better video card and Ubuntu with
>> > which to
>> > test this theory, but I may not have one at my disposal.
>> > Does anyone know if the error I posted is specifically related to
>> > insufficient graphics capabilities?
>> > Thanks for your help so far,
>> > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>> > William Woodall
>> > Graduate Software Engineering
>> > Auburn University
>> > w at auburn.edu
>> > wjwwood at gmail.com
>> > 256-345-9938
>> > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>> >
>> >
>> > On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 5:13 PM, John Hsu <johnhsu at willowgarage.com>
>> > wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Hi,
>> >>
>> >> What graphics card and driver do you have?
>> >>
>> >> Gazebo/Ogre needs hardware acceleration, from my experience parallel's
>> >> will not work.  Older ATI drivers also have incompatible OpenGL
>> >> implementations.  Most NVIDIA cards seems to run fine.
>> >> Please see
>> >> http://www.ros.org/wiki/simulator_gazebo/SystemRequirements
>> >> for list of tested cards and drivers.
>> >>
>> >> John
>> >>
>> >> On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 2:40 PM, William Woodall <wjwwood at gmail.com>
>> >> wrote:
>> >>>
>> >>> I am trying to use the cturtle binaries on ubuntu to experiment with
>> >>> gazebo's new features.  When I run `roslaunch gazebo_worlds
>> >>> empty_world.launch` I get this error:
>> >>> http://gist.github.com/430689
>> >>> In trying to debug this we have tried to run this on two different
>> >>> macbook pros running ubuntu lucid in parallels and on a laptop running
>> >>> lucid
>> >>> that has an ati x1300 moble all with the same result.
>> >>> Any ideas would be appreciated.
>> >>> Thanks,
>> >>> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>> >>> William Woodall
>> >>> Graduate Software Engineering
>> >>> Auburn University
>> >>> w at auburn.edu
>> >>> wjwwood at gmail.com
>> >>> 256-345-9938
>> >>> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>> >>>
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